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Querelle

by Jean Genet

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 288 pages

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Regarded by many critics as Jean Genet's highest achievement in the novel –– certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by peril, Querelle deals in a startling way with the Dostoyevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberatio...

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The Quest for Asdin

by Randall Bush

Published: 167

Paperback: 242 pages

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An ancient evil unleashes catastrophic horrors upon the rainbow world of Spectara after Asdin, the Sacred Star of Frozen Light, goes missing. A hostile political takeover and merciless executions follow. Forced to flee his homeland, Sindle begins an adventure filled with peril, marvelous discovery,...

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A Question of Belief

by Donna Leon

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Brunetti is a marvel: smart, cultured, and dedicated to his work." --The Washington Post Commissario Guido Brunetti longs to escape the crowds of tourists and oppressive heat of Venice in August. But before he can join his family on holiday in the mountains, a folder containing court rec...

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* * * * Brilliant,
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A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry

by David Kessler

Published: 2002-03-20

Paperback: 492 pages

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Now in paperback: former FDA commissioner David Kessler's non-fiction legal thriller about his agency's fight with Big Tobacco. Dubbed "Eliot Knessler" by The Washington Post, due to the way he resurrected a moribund government agency, FDA Commissioner David Kessler launched a carefully c...

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The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 1)

by M. C. Beaton

Published: 2006-03-07

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best...

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The Quick and the Dead

by Joy Williams

Published: 2002-01-08

Paperback: 320 pages

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Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored st...

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A Quick Bite (Argeneau Vampires, Book 1)

by Lynsay Sands

Published: 2005-10-25

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau's bed? He's not dessert?he's the main course! Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there's another, more pressing issu...

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Quick Study: A Murder 101 Mystery

by Maggie Barbieri

Published: 2009-11-03

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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She thought that dating a good-looking cop would be exciting and involve lots of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks. So why hasn?t NYPD officer Bobby Crawford ever invited English professor Alison on any high-speed car chases or stakeouts? Life on the sleepy college c...

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The Quickening Maze: A Novel

by Adam Foulds

Published: 2010-06-29

Paperback: 258 pages

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A visionary novel by ?one of the most talented writers of his generation? (The Times Literary Supplement)'shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize ?Impressive . . . simultaneously poised and flowing in its urgency.??The Guardian (London) ?The world [Foulds] evokes . . . is conjured up wi...

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* * * Difficult,
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The Quickening

by Michelle Hoover

Published: 2010-06-29

Paperback: 216 pages

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A July 2010 Indie Next PickEnidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises ...